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Oct 12, 2012 03:47 PM

by Jeanne Rasata, assistant to the president

Richard Stallman, the founder and president of the FSF, continues his
work of tirelessly advocating for computer users' freedom. Over the
past six months, he has traveled over eighty thousand miles by land
and by air to bring the message of the free software movement to
thousands of people -- students and academics, newcomers and experts,
policy makers, software developers, researchers, business people, and
all members of the general public interested in civil liberties and
the social aspects of computing -- delivering over fifty speeches in
thirty-eight cities across thirteen countries, including Sweden,
Russia, France, India, Portugal, Slovenia, Croatia, Tunisia and Spain.

On his return to the United States he spoke on six college campuses:
at Norwich University, at the University of Pennsylvania, at the
University of Maryland, College Park, as part of the iPAC Speaker
Series, at Cogswell Polytechnical College, at the John Jay College to
an audience from throughout the CUNY system, including local and
federal law enforcement agencies as well as local forensic and
security firms, at Purdue, at the University of Chicago, and at
Southern Oregon State University, as part of the Campus Theme -- this
year focused on "Civility" -- speaker series, and at the Noisebridge
Hackerspace, in San Francisco.

We look forward to stories and photographs from his trips to Brazil,
Argentina, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, the Czech Republic,
Germany, Venezuela, and Colombia. You can see photographic excerpts of
some of his recent appearances on his blog at fsf.org/blogs/rms,
and hear those of his speeches for which we have recordings at
audio-video.gnu.org. Please write to rms-assist@gnu.org
with any photographs you would like to share or to extend an
invitation for Richard to come speak.